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The War in Sallie's Station

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Having grown up in a small southern town with the curses and blessings of larger than life small town characters and their intense involvment in each other's lives, The War in Sallie's Station rang true on every front. It is a marvelous book which has more than a few turns of phrase which remind me of my literary idol, Harper Lee--I could not reccomend it more highly. The War in Sallie's Station is a story of friendship and love that span not only changing years but cultures, of evil that transends imagination, and of ultimate good that conquors all.

I know Sallies Station, in fact I know Mignon Franklin Ballard.
We grew up in the same small town that Sallies Station is based on.
She has captured my town and all other small towns in America.
I have enjoyed her angel series and eagerly await the new one due in April of next year.
Sallies Station goes between the years of WW II and present day and the characters are wonderful.
I only wish she would write faster and hope she will write a sequel to this book.

This is a historical novel about life in rural Georgia in during the World War Two era. If you like the works of Ferrol Sams, you will also like this one. As a baby-boomer, this gave me an insite into my parents childhood. The character are charming, and well-drawn.

Nobody does small towns better than Mignon Ballard. In her delightful mystery series starring temp angel Augusta Goodnight, Ballard captures the personality of each setting with an uncanny eye for character, an infallible ear for dialogue and an unabashed passion for food. She applies the same foolproof formula for "The War In Sallie's Station." Although she claims it's her first "straight" novel, "Sallie's" is full of mystery: Why is Miss Havergal so nasty? What did the children do to get rid of her and will they be found out? Will Frannie survive a very real, very normal life fraught with family conflict and cancer? In Ballard's stories, present-day events and emotions always lead to the past. What is different about "Sallie's" is the theme of war. There's World War II, the very adult, very masculine fight for freedom and democracy. There are the very personal battles women fight everyday for self-preservation. And there are the struggles of children to be heard, as symbolized by young Frannie's "Dear Mr. Hitler" letter. No battle -- whether fought on foreign soil, on the home front, or in the heart -- is less significant than any other. Another great wholesome read from one of the South's best.

I ordered this book as a surprise gift for my daughter asshe has many questions about life in WW Two. We still have not received the book and I am angry.